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Capps, Kalitta & Butner Lead Pro Qualifiers At NHRA Phoenix!

Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt   Series points leader Ron Capps took the No. 1 qualifying position in Funny Car on Saturday at the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA Nationals. Doug Kalitta (Top Fuel)...

Force, Brown & Butner Lead Friday Qualifying At NHRA Phoenix!

Photos by Jeff Burghardt, Mike Burghardt and Bob Wingfield   Courtney Force raced to the qualifying lead in Funny Car Friday with a track record performance at the CARQUEST Auto Parts NHRA...

Buy This And Be Ultra Competitive In Pro Touring Events Out Of The Box For Less Than $20k!

The C5 ZO6 is one hell of a performance machine, and just yesterday I posted a dirt cheap C4 and said that you can’t get a nice ZO6 for less than $15k, and then you have to do all the stuff to...

One Unique Pro Street Machine, And It’s For Sale Cheap! Someone Buy This For Race Week

When Mike Powers sent me the link to this one, I knew it was going to be good. Whoever buys this will certainly get seen, and will be the only guy on their block driving one, because how many...

Best In The Desert Off-Road Racing Fun! Team Graf Tearing It Up At The 2016 Parker 425

The Best in the Desert series is pretty damn cool, and brings out the big guns. One team that knows how to run hard, and stay up at the top of the heap, is Graf Racing. Their Ford F150 is one bad ass...

This $800 C4 Corvette Could Be Your Ticket To Pro Touring Fame And Glory

So the C5 Corvette is better than the C4. And the C6 and C7 are better yet. Getting a C5 for less than $10,000 means salvage title or a car with some serious issues, and in most cases they all have...

Here Is Your Chance To Own One Unique Gasser! This 1959 F100 Is On Its Way To Greatness!

Gassers are cool. Everyone wants one. Hell, I know guys who have never owned anything like them that are building their own gassers right now. And for good reason, they are awesome. Sure they handle...

It’s The Van Man… This Dodge A100 Is Classic Greatness

1970’s and 80’s vans, with the rake, custom wheels, and crazy paint, are bitchin! But so are the subtle ones. In fact, that’s my speed. Like this Dodge A100. Sure we’d letter...

This 1972 Porsche 914 Could Be A Riot On The Autocross

Back in the day I used to run at the Porsche Club autocross events in Weatherford Texas. And one thing I remember about those events was how fast the Porsche 914 guys were. The cars are tiny, a V8...

It’s No 1600 Horsepower Sand Car, But This Baja Bug Would Still Be A Riot In The Dunes!

I’ve always had a special place in my heart for Baja Bugs. I don’t know why, but there is something ultra cool about them and I really would like to have one. Unfortunately they are not...

This 1600 Horsepower Sand Car Is Amazing, And Maybe The Fastest Car Ever At Glamis

Sand cars are bad ass. I realize that most of you never seen them, or have anywhere to drive one, but if you live out here on the west coast, or in certain areas of Michigan and Oklahoma, you are...

Kevin Tetz Shows Us How To Set And Massage The Door Gaps On Your Old Hot Rod

Bodywork is one of the most intimidating parts of building a hot rod. It is the part a lot of people dread, and with good reason. Doing it wrong can ruin a lot of good stuff. Or so we think. Kevin...

Home Grown Dukes Of Hazzard Fun: It’s Amazing What Fun A $200 Beater Can Be!

For years I’ve been saying that I want to get a few buddies together and have each of us buy a $200 car and then go out and thrash it in the dirt. Or on the dragstrip. Or… well you get...

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Classic Match Race Funny Cars Continue For 2016!

Two Classic Match Race nitro funny cars will continue together for 2016… with new Sponsors and Drivers. Things are always moving with Rocky Pirrone & Al Liebmann with the Frantic Ford...